books about: competitions     books:     Competitions      Competitive Strategy: Techniques for Analyzing Industries and Competitors Michael E. Porter Free Press, 1998 Competitive strategy This is a great tool for people in the industry, graduate students, anyone wanting to climb the corporate ladder. Read it times over and you'll find interesting points, applicable to personal career as well as corporate strategy. Straight forwward analytical set of ...             Blue Ocean Strategy: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make Competition Irrelevant W. Chan Kim, Renée Mauborgne Harvard Business School Press, 2005 Strategy will always include opportunity and risk Strategy: 1. In blue oceans, competition is irrelevant because the rules of the game are waiting to be set. Companies need to go beyond competing. To seize new profit and growth opportunities, they also need to create blue oceans. 2. Put the clock forward 20 to ...             The Momentum Effect: How to Ignite Exceptional Growth J.C. Larreche Wharton School Publishing, 2008 Good reasons for Reading and Not Reading this book ! A lot of companies and agencies are pushing buzz words such as Customer Centric approach or Marketing 360°. The book from Jean-Claude Larreche is a great balance between strategy perspective and operational implications. It demonstrates that the success in creating ...             International Business: The Challenge of Global Competition w/ CESIM access card Donald Ball, Wendell H. McCulloch, ... McGraw-Hill/Irwin, 2007 Fast Delivery and exceptional quality Everything was great about the transaction, from the delivery to the Quality, I am very pleased.             Seeing What's Next: Using Theories of Innovation to Predict Industry Change Clayton M. Christensen, Erik A. Roth, ... Harvard Business School Press, 2004 Michael Porter of Innovation Just as Michael Porter is the authority on Strategy, Clayton Christensen has become the authority on Innovation. He has not only created a great business theory, he has created an institution that defines our modern understanding of disruptive innovation. The ...             Thinking Strategically: The Competitive Edge in Business, Politics, and Everyday Life Avinash K. Dixit, Barry J. Nalebuff W. W. Norton & Company, 1993 yeahhhhhhhh I want to learn game theory and after reading this book I am even more pumped. This is really cool and its not cmplicated at all for a beginner.             Wooden on Leadership John Wooden McGraw-Hill, 2005 A basketball philosophy masterpiece Hands down this is the best basketball philosophy book. This tells exactly how Wooden ran UCLA's basketball program and explains why they won 10 national championships. To truely understand the mind of one of basketball's greatest coaches, you must read this book. ...             Redefining Health Care: Creating Value-Based Competition on Results Michael E. Porter, Elizabeth Olmsted Teisberg Harvard Business School Press, 2006 Review I am taking a Health Care Management Strategy class and this book was recommended by our professor. Very well thought and comprehensive book. Some comclusions can be challenged, but the book bringing a new look on Health Care and provide solutions for ...             International Business Charles W. L. Hill McGraw-Hill/Irwin, 2008 Culture, Economics, Stategy, and Corportate Functions I've used previous editions of this text in my international business course, and have decided to adopt this one as well. The text does a great job of hitting every topic that international business people/corporations need to know. The text covers country ...             Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies Jim Collins, Jerry I. Porras Collins Business, 2004 Blue Ocean Strategy: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make Competition Irrelevant Blue Ocean Strategy: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make the Competition Irrelevant This is one of my favorite book!!             Getting Everything You Can Out of All You've Got: 21 Ways You Can Out-Think, Out-Perform, and Out-Earn the ... Jay Abraham St. Martin's Griffin, 2001 Zen This book is simply amazing! After reading this book I have been able to implement new powerful strategies to my business and my personal life. I have experienced such a great benefit from reading this book that am requiring all of my employees to read it. This book is ...             Globality: Competing with Everyone from Everywhere for Everything Hal Sirkin, Jim Hemerling, ... Business Plus, 2008 How to thrive in an ecosystem of business opportunity With regard to the title, Harold Sirkin, James Hemerling, and Arindam Bhattacharya explain that "globality [is] the name for a new and different reality in which we'll all be competing with everyone, from everywhere, for everything." In a global business environment ...             Strategy and the Business Landscape (2nd Edition) Pankaj Ghemawat Prentice Hall, 2005 Excellent Guide The concepts are well illustrated with tables and charts. Though I find the case studies a bit outdated, the strategies discussed along with it provides a clear picture on how the industry is structured and different management style. The reading is excellent and not ...             Simplified Strategic Planning: A No-Nonsense Guide for Busy People Who Want Results Fast! Robert W. Bradford, J. Peter Duncan, ... Chandler House Press, 2000 Don't just read the book use it! Yes the book "simplifies" a difficult process, but the real proof of its worth is actually using the plan set forth by the authors. We are well into year one of following the instructions and our 38 year old company has never communicated to the level it is now. We ...             Managing With Power: Politics and Influence in Organizations Jeffrey Pfeffer Harvard Business School Press, 1994 The ability to influence behavior, events and people Jeffrey Pfeffer is Professor of Organizational Behavior in the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University, California. Previously he has been at the University of Illinois, the University of California at Berkeley, and as a Visiting Professor at the Harvard ...          products you might be interested in search for books international, no-nonsense, organizations, out-perform, strategically, uncontested      toavi.com    web we recommend Blue Ocean Strategy: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make Competition Irrelevant randomly chosen book: Environment and Society: Human Perspectives on Environmental Issues (3rd ...